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Chapter 3 ’Web User Graphical Interface’ — GUI Description
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 Data access : there are two types of network:
 Internal : reserved for communicating audio/video data between
nodes (including communication between statmux controller
and encoders).

External only : used for audio/video data exchanged with the
outside environment (both input and output) or for
control-command purposes.
 Management : reserved for management or control command
purposes. You can configure protocol access from external only
and management LAN in the Setup/monitoring tab (Refer to
section
’Setup/Monitoring’ on page 176).

Master node virtual IP address : this is a virtual IP address
allocated to the master node, allowing supervision of the Electra VS
on this LAN. It allows you to connect to the Electra VS without
knowing which node is currently the master node. You are
recommended to set it on the control-command network.
 VLAN tagging : VLAN tagging is IEEE 802.1Q standard compliant
and allows several Virtual LANs to be grouped on a single Ethernet
network.
 Maximum input bitrate and Maximum output bitrate : these
bitrates may be automatically computed based on the link speed.
They indicate the maximum quantity of data that the system is
allowed to exchange on the network. These values are used by the
load-balancer to check that there is enough network bandwidth to
instantiate a job on a node.
 All nodes : this mode lets you quickly configure the network on all the
nodes.
 Ranges : use this mode if you want to apply a different configuration
on the nodes, for instance to authorize access to a network from
certain nodes only or use non contiguous addresses.
 First address : address of the first node. Node #1 will have this 1st
address, Node #2 will have this address plus 1, etc.
Routes
Figure 3-128. Route configuration
If you are using VLAN tagging to share an Ethernet network between
several VLANs, you must define the available bandwidth allocation
between the VLANs: this is done via the above two parameters.